MORE PROOF (FROM CANADA THIS TIME!) THAT SOCIALZED, NATIONAL HEALTHCARE SUCKS

Need a procedure or operation? Then - if your Canadian - you had better be prepared to WAIT. A long time. Listed below are the RECOMMENDED wait times!

Doctors alliance sets out maximum wait times for 5 key health-care areas: The Wait Time Alliance‘s recommendations are a first step in setting final benchmarks aimed at speeding up patient access to cancer treatment, cardiac care, joint replacement, sight restoration through cataract surgery and diagnostic imaging, the specialty that underpins the other four. The alliance‘s interim report, released Sunday, says patients needing emergency diagnostic imaging and treatment should not have to wait more than 24 hours, whether it‘s for an MRI scan or radiation therapy for cancer. For patients whose conditions are deemed urgent or semi-urgent, X-rays, CT scans, RIs or other diagnostic imaging should be done within seven to 30 days.

No cancer patient should wait beyond 10 working days for radiation, the report recommends, while cataract surgery should be performed within four months. When it comes to hip or knee replacements, urgent and semi-urgent cases should mean surgery within 30 to 90 days, while routine cases should be dealt with by nine months, including consultation with an orthopedic specialist and the subsequent operation, the report says. Waits for patients needing emergency heart bypass should not exceed 48 hours, with benchmarks for urgent and semi-urgent surgery set at three to 56 days and routine at 42 to 180 days.

This is TYPICAL of what socialism creates: a mess that satisifes NO ONE. Not doctors or patients. Both suffer. Why would anyone want to do this to our healthcare system!!?!?